Playoffs or no playoffs, Flyers still can't solve Devils

Apr. 19, 2013

Claude Giroux (right) boards New Jersey's Henrik Tallinder during the second period.

Written by

Randy Miller
| Courier-Post Staff

It was just around this time a year ago that the Flyers were starting to believe it could be "their" year. With a lot of kids in the lineup, they steamrolled their way to a first-round playoff upset of Sidney Crosby and the Penguins, then were favorites with home ice in a best-of-seven against New Jersey.

The Flyers still are trying to figure out what went wrong.

They couldn't get much puck possession in being smothered into the offseason in five games last spring, and it's been more of the same during this short and not-so-sweet season that's almost over. ...